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Working full time? Wondering how you'll ever manage to complete your bachelor's degree? Through the Wilberforce University CLIMB (Credentials for Leadership in Management and Business) Program you can gain credit for life experience and earn a Bachelor of Science degree in as little as 14 months. Degrees are offered in the following areas.
The CLIMB Program is designed for adults over the age of 23 with a least fiver years' work experience in a supervisory or other responsible position and a minimum of 60 transferable semester credits from an accredited institution. Small group settings make it easy to get to know other adults with similar interests and commitments. You'll benefit from varied personal, professional, and technical backgrounds as you crate a valuable academic and profession support network.
The faculty is sensitive to the needs of adult learners and can help you assess the best ways to increase your effectiveness and reach your career goals. Course work will help you to hone your organizational, behavioral, supervisory, and interpersonal skills while exposing you to a variety of management problems and solutions. Choose to continue your education at one of the following locations:
Wilberforce University
Martin Luther King Building, Room 301
Wilberforce, Ohio
Miami Jacobs College
Dayton, Ohio
VA Medical Center
Dayton, Ohio
Columbus State Community College
Columbus, Ohio
Southern State Community College
Washington Courthouse, Ohio
Swifton Commons
Cincinnati, Ohio
Next Steps
The CLIMB Program at Wilberforce will help you reach new heights in your career and enrich you life. Just take the following steps to apply and you're on your way.
- Call the Adult and Continuing Education Office to request an application packet
- Submit the completed application form along with a $25 application fee.
- Request official transcripts from all regionally accredited colleges and universities previously attended. Have transcripts sent directly to Wilberforce University.
- Obtain a reference endorsing your ability to do college level work.
- Schedule an appointment to complete a writing sample in the office.
After you've been admitted, you can meet with an advisor to review your transcripts and life experience. During this meeting you will learn about the options available to fulfill various payment plans financial aid, and employer tuition reimbursement benefits.
For more information, please contact our office. We look forward to answering your questions.
Office of Adult and Continuing Education
Wilberforce University
207 Wolfe Administration Building
P.O. Box 1001
Wilberforce, Ohio 45384-1001
Phone: (937) 7085324
Toll Free: (888) WU-ADULT (888) 982-3858
At Wilberforce, we recognize that you've gained valuable knowledge and skills since you last sat in a classroom. We'll help you create a personal portfolio that outlines your previous college, military, professional, and personal experiences. You can translate past workshops, seminars, and professional licenses into college credit, or test out of various subject areas through CLEF and DANTES standardized tests, or receive credit for writing life-learning papers to meet general education requirements. Faculty will assess your portfolio and allow you to earn up to 30 hours' credit for your past life accomplishments.
In addition to classroom assignments, an independent research project will give you experience solving problems, designing and implementing research, and interacting with others through written and verbal communications. When appropriate, this project will examine a real-life problem within your current organization. Or, if you're considering a career change, we will work with you to find a project that complements your new direction.
Each of the five major areas contains ten instruction modules that make it possible for you to fit your course- work into a busy schedule. Classes meet one night a week from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. for 52 weeks over two terms. The ten modules earn a total of 33 semester-hours, not including credit awarded for your portfolio.
The information technology program covers all aspects of IT, from programming to quantitative methods to databases to systems analysis and design. Through an independent project you apply new skills as you analyze, design, and implement a unique IT system.
Modules
- Introduction to Information Technology
- Statistical and Quantitative Techniques
- Computer Programming
- Systems Analysis and Design
- Database Management Systems
- Application Programming (Oracle, Visual Basic, C++)
- Telecommunications and Networking Methods
- Organizational Management in Information Technology
- Economics and Financial Aspects of Information Technology Design Project
The health services administration program prepares you for leadership roles by enhancing your interpersonal skills and through the study of organizational behavior, health care, and management. You will apply what you learn to a strategic problem within an organization as you complete an applied research project.
Modules
- Introduction to Health Services
- Environmental Health
- Methods of Health Planning
- Economics and Fiscal Management
- Health Services
- Health Services Information Systems
- Financial Aspects of Health
- Services Administration
- Management in Long-Term Care Facilities
- Legal Aspects of Health Services Administration
- Health Resources Management
- Medical Terminology
- Health Services Administration Planning Project
The organizational management program will build your effectiveness through the study of organizational behavior, management principles, and effective communication strategies. You will complete and present an independent project in which you research and apply theories to an issue in your workplace.
Modules
- Adult Development and Life Assessment
- Group and Organizational Behavior
- Organizational Concepts
- Accounting and Finance for Managers
- Organizational Communications
- Methods of Research and Analysis
- Human Resource Management
- Issues in Management
- Personal Values and Organizational Ethics
- Independent Research Project
The organizational communications program builds your interpersonal and group communication skills while you study public relations, diversity, mediation, and negotiations through a global lens. You will complete an independent study project that focuses on a work-related or socially significant issue.
Modules
- Adult Development and Life Assessment
- Fundamentals of Interpersonal and Group Communications
- Theories and Concepts of Organizational Communications
- Research Methods in Organizational Communications
- Cultural and Global Issues in Organizational Communications
- Organizational Communication Skills and Techniques
- Information Technology and Organizational Communications
- Principles of Public Relations and Marketing
- Negotiation and Mediation in Organizational Communications
- Independent Research Project
The hospitality management program will provide you the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in the hospitality and tourism industry. During your independent project, you'll work with a faculty member and an industry professional to research a topic and apply what you've learned.
Modules
- Adult Development and Life Assessment
- Introduction to the Hospitality Industry
- Introduction to Travel and Tourism Management
- Computer Applications in Hospitality Management
- Principles of Hospitality Sales and Management
- Human Resource Management
- Financial Management and Control Systems
- Business Ethics and Issues in Hospitality Law
- Hospitality Management Development
- Independent Research Project
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